Senior Project Manager, Architecture

NScale is a GPU cloud company engineered for AI, providing infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprises. The Senior Project Manager, Architecture role involves managing architectural scope and execution across multiple U.S. data center projects, ensuring high-quality delivery and coordination among various teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage concept, schematic, and detailed design phases for new builds and expansions with a focus on the architectural scope
• Own the architecture portion of the design concepts, deliverable tracking, and issue resolution (RFIs, design clarifications, change management)
• Coordinate program requirements, space planning, and room adjacencies with internal stakeholders (Design, Construction, Commissioning, Operations)
• Lead design coordination with A/E partners and ensure alignment across disciplines in BIM/clash coordination workflows
• Run design meetings, track action items, and drive closure on open design decisions and interfaces
• Review drawings and specifications for completeness, constructability, maintainability, and compliance with applicable codes and standards
• Support procurement and construction execution through submittal reviews, field issue support, and scope clarifications
• Support architectural due diligence for potential colocation sites, including assessment of building constraints, fit, access/logistics, and modification boundaries
• Review landlord/operator documentation and summarize constraints, risks, and required upgrades to support fit-out
• Support negotiation inputs for architectural lease exhibits (fit-out boundaries, permitted modifications, access requirements, and change control requirements)
• Support early-stage site screening by documenting architectural feasibility considerations (massing, setbacks, expansion capacity, access/logistics, staging)
• Support architectural due diligence for greenfield and brownfield opportunities, including building suitability (if existing), code pathway risks, and upgrade/retrofit impacts
• Maintain a structured risk register for architecture/CSA items and track mitigations through design and execution

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience managing design and delivery for mission-critical facilities, with significant time on data centers (CSA/architecture scope)
• Proven experience coordinating external A/E firms and driving drawing/spec deliverables from concept through construction documents
• Working knowledge of core data center architectural drivers: space planning, maintainability/access, constructability, and life safety coordination
• Experience working with U.S. AHJs and navigating local code environments (state/local variations)
• Strong project management skills: schedule control, risk tracking, scope management, and stakeholder communication
• Strong presence and decision-making capability
• Pragmatic, risk-based leadership style suited to fast-paced construction environments
• High judgment in high-consequence scenarios
• Ability to challenge delivery teams while maintaining partnership